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| Three-hundred-day Soviet blockade of land access to U.S., British, and French occupation zones in Berlin, 1948-1949. |
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| Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) |
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| Agency that coordinates the gathering and evaluation of military and economic information on other nations, established in 1947. |
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| The political and economic confrontation between the Soviet Union and the U.S. that dominated world affairs from 1946 to 1989. |
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| The policy of resisting further expansion of the Soviet bloc through diplomacy and, if necessary, military action, developed in 1947-48. |
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| Council of Economic Advisers |
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| Board of 3 professional economists established in 1946 to advise the president on economic policy. |
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| Left-leaning American Progressive Party. (officially the States' Rights Democrats) |
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| Legislation in June 1944 that eased the return of veterans into American society by providing educational and employment benefits. |
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| House Committe on Un-American Activities (HUAC) |
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| Congressman Martin Dies, a Texas Democrat, created the Special Committe on Un-American Activities. Originally intended to ferret out pro-Fascists, the Dies Committee evolved into the permanent HUAC in 1945. |
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| International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
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| International organization established in 1945 to assist nations in maintaining stable currencies. |
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| On June 25, 1950, North Korea, helped by the Soviet equipment and Chinese training attacked South Korea. The invasion began the Korean War. |
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| William Levitt, a New York builder, built houses for veterans. The houses were small but gave new families a place to start. There were 6,000 Levittown houses by the end of 1948. |
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| European Recovery Plan announced by Secretary of State George C. Marshall which committed the U.S. to help rebuild Europe. |
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| Anticommunist attitudes and actions associated with Senator Joe McCarthy in the early 1950s, including smear tactics and innuendo. |
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| National Security Council (NSC) |
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| The formal policymaking body for national defense and foreign relations, created in 1947 and consisting of the president, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, and others appointed by the president. |
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| National Security Council Paper 68 (NSC-68) |
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| Policy statement that committed the U.S. to a military approach to the Cold War. |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
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| A mutual defense pact signed by the U.S., Canada, and 10 European nations in April 1949. |
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| Involved withholding home-purchase loans and insurance coverage from inner-city areas. |
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| Federal legislation of 1947 that substantially limited the tools available to labor unions in labor-management disputes. |
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| President Harry Truman's statement in 1947 that the U.S. should assist other nations that were facing external pressure or internal revolution; an important step in the escalation of the Cold War. |
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| After 1955, the counter part to NATO; for mutual defense among the Soviet Union and its European satellites. |
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| Designed to revive international trade. It drew on the resources of member nations to make economic development loans to governments for such projects as new dams or agricultural modernization. |
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